| 单词 | to hang over head |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto hang over (one's) head b. figurative. Of an evil or doubt: to hover over one, ready or liable to fall; to impend, be imminent; esp. in phrase to hang over (one's) head. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > future [verb (intransitive)] > be imminent > of evil or danger to hang over (one's) head1548 impenda1627 1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV 219 The greate calamities and adversities, whiche then did hang over her hed, and were likely..to fall. 1552 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16279) Administr. Lordes Supper sig. N.iiv How sore punishmente hangeth ouer your heads. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxv. 133 The punishment hanging over us for our sins. 1664 Floddan Field iv. 34 Now since at hand such danger hings. 1783 Polite Trav. 76 Embittered as they were by..the popular odium which hung over them. 1865–6 H. Phillips Amer. Paper Currency II. 72 Uncertainty hung over the movements of the British troops in New York. < as lemmas |
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